KOLKATA: With the DCGI's (Drug Controller General of India) clearance of phase-III clinical trials for Sputnik V Covid candidate vaccine, Kolkata is set to test it on 100 volunteers. Peerless Hospital had been selected as a trial site and ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has given the "minor" sanction - or preliminary clearance - for two new stations, Baranagar and Dakshineswar, of the 4km Dakshineswar Metro extension. CRS, under the ministry of civil aviation, gives the ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The CBI on Wednesday has issued fourth notice to Vinay Mishra, a Trinamool Youth Congress leader, in connection to the cattle smuggling case. The agency, which has claimed that Mishra is yet to cooperate, might seek his arrest ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day after a few TMC supporters chanted the slogan 'Bangal ke gaddaro ko, goli maro saalo ko' (shoot the traitors of Bengal) during a rally here, the ruling party in Bengal on Wednesday distanced itself from the ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Of the 13,693 beneficiaries vaccinated on Tuesday in Bengal, 11 cases of adverse event following immunization (AEFI) were reported. One of them is in hospital care for thorough observation as the recipient complained of chill and nausea. "The ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When prices of every essential commodity show perpetually rising graphs, the steadily sliding vegetables prices are only solace to the pockets of citizens. Mid-January showed a steady plunge in the prices, which continues to slide because of bumper ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The prices of petrol and diesel are touching record high in Kolkata, along with other cities of the country. But, it is not just the surge in crude oil prices globally that led to this spike - there ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Protestants from across the state will walk from the Epiphany Church at Thakurpukur to Oxford Mission near Behala Chowrasta on Wednesday under the aegis of the Bengal Christian Council, which is an affiliate of the National Council of ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: After being subjected to massive trolling for her comment on beef-eating on a television show, actor Debleena Dutt Mukherjee’s husband Tathagata Mukherjee has approached Kolkata Police and the West Bengal Women’s Commission, urging them to take note of ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Traffic cops have indicated that they will start a robust exercise to re-evaluate one-way roads in the city. According to sources, 90% of the one-way roads were marked several years ago. “Since then, there has been a change ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal’s impending elections have cast a shadow on a possible phase-wise school re-opening schedule from February. Several states and union territories have already begun the phased reopening of schools and colleges. With no clarity on the dates of ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: One lasting regret that Soumitra Chatterjee had was his inability to re-tell the tragedy of King Lear on stage the way he wanted to and for as long as he wanted to. Chatterjee would take to the paper ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Purba Jadavpur traffic guard has submitted a detailed report to Lalbazar about the proposed traffic diversions for several months at the Avishikta crossing after the completion of the three-day trial run carried out by local cops. On the ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: All major private bus operating syndicates in the city have threatened to go on a strike from January 28 to 30, with a demand of introducing GST to diesel prices and immediate revision of bus fare. All syndicates, ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: At a time when political parties are busy taking over walls to write election graffiti ahead of the impending Assembly polls, youths in a neighbourhood in Brahmapur Place near Bansdroni took up the paintbrush to paint those walls ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Environment activist Subhas Datta on Tuesday wrote to chief election commissioner Sunil Arora and urged the Election Commission of India to include environment norms in the code of conduct for elections, including the forthcoming Assembly polls in Bengal. ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri: Fourteen people were feared dead and several others were injured when a boulder-laden truck overturned and fell on three small vehicles near Jaldhaka Bridge at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri late on Tuesday. Sources said the truck lost control, hit ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Covid vaccine shots waited across Kolkata hospitals on Tuesday morning as recipients switched their focus to Indians inching towards a famous win at Brisbane. And the sweet victory eased the pain of the shot. “I had initially planned ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: As Rishabh Pant drove Hazlewood and the ball rolled all the way to the boundary rope, sealing a famous series victory for injury-ridden Team India, Indians in Australia burst into celebrations. While those present at the Gabba in ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The state government on Tuesday made it clear that none can be vaccinated without being logged in to the Co-WIN application but allowed individual facilities more flexibility to map their recipients in advance. Despite Co-WIN glitches, the state ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday sought all details of cases against MPs and MLAs till February 5. The HC will hear the matter on that day. Based on an apex court order, the HC sought these details from ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to send requisitions to the Bengal assembly speaker on MLAs indicted in the Narada probe. The CBI told the court that it had already sent the requisition to the assembly ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata/Purulia: The Centre’s declaring Netaji’s birthday as ‘Parakram Diwas’ evoked strong reactions in West Bengal on Tuesday, with chief minister Mamata Banerjee stating her unhappiness. The Bengal government is celebrating Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary on Saturday as ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The number of vaccine recipients dipped further across Bengal on Tuesday — the third day of vaccination in the state — even as the state’s next tranche of Covishield was set to arrive on Wednesday. On a day ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaHutmura (Purulia): Chief minister Mamata Banerjee likened BJP to a “venomous snake” that kills people in one bite. “Ora (BJP) keute saap, ek chhobolei mrityu. They are more dangerous than Maoists,” she said at a Trinamool Congress gathering in ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bengal government appointed two senior IAS officers — Smaraki Mahapatra and Sanghamitra Ghosh — as joint chief electoral officer and additional chief electoral officer on Tuesday, a day before EC’s full bench is expected to reach the ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaHenria (East Midnapore): A day after Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that she was going to contest from Nandigram, BJP leader and former MLA from the seat Suvendu Adhikari made his polarisation plank clear when he spelt out ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata/Purulia: The Centre’s declaring Netaji’s birthday as ‘Parakram Diwas’ evoked strong reactions in West Bengal on Tuesday, with chief minister Mamata Banerjee stating her unhappiness. The Bengal government is celebrating Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary on Saturday as ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaBolpur: Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty on Tuesday wrote to economist Amartya Sen’s lawyers that in “June/July 2019” he had received a call from a person’s cell phone on which Sen had spoken with him. The VC claimed that by ...
20 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaActress Sushmita Sen visited Konnagar for her cousin’s wedding with her mother Subhra Sen, two daughters Renee and Alisha, brother Rajiv Sen and Rohman Shawl. The actress reached Konnagar on January 15 and left via Kolkata airport on Monday ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Covid-19 immunisation drive for frontline healthcare workers is underway at 207 centres in West Bengal on the third day of the exercise on Tuesday even as glitches were reported in the Co-WIN portal, a senior official of ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Terming the BJP as more dangerous than the Maoists, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the saffron party of making false promises to the people before elections. The TMC supremo, whose party is witnessing an ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Despite the glitches on Saturday and Monday, the Covid vaccination drive will completely go online from Tuesday operating on the Covid-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application, health department officials said after partial restoration of the platform on Monday. ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaDay 1: 54 people vaccinated without Co-WIN. Day 2: 41 people vaccinated with Co-WIN. The vaccination site at Salt Lake’s Duttabad primary health centre, which courted controversy on Saturday for allowing civic officials and staff to be vaccinated, stuck ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) plans to peel off the existing bituminous surface of the one-way slip bridge connecting VIP Road with Salt Lake under the Ultadanga flyover and lay new concrete surface to prevent rainwater to ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The war of words between economist Amartya Sen and Visva-Bharati authorities continues, with the Nobel Laureate on Monday writing to V-B vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and asking him to immediately withdraw the false allegation that a plot of land ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata-based businessman’s son has returned home several months after allegedly being abducted and taken to Punjab days after the businessman — who also had earlier been abducted — lodged an FIR at Kasba. The detective department said ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has drafted a cycle mobility masterplan that has charted out the possibility of a dedicated corridor criss-crossing the city. Covering 14 major roads and aggregating 120km in length, the 2m-wide tracks will ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bird-flu scare has prompted the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to conduct a drive against sale of dead or sick chickens at the city’s major markets. Acting on a state health department guideline, the KMC has formed a ...
19 Jan 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fourteen healthcare workers complained of uneasiness after taking the Covishield shot on Monday. While 12 were sent home after they felt better, two women were hospitalized with mild side effects so that their condition could be monitored. “While ...
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